Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pers pn] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it was the only one with a with its own kitchen . |
| 2 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 3 | I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 4 | I know it was the last straw of many . |
| 5 | My brother reckons it was Beeney 's fault for not coming off his line but I reckon it was the two centre halfs again . |
| 6 | I reckon it was the hardest job next to coal-mining . |
| 7 | And when the businessman er realized he very generously sold it to the Trust er I believe the same I do n't know , I believe it was the same . |
| 8 | I believe he was the first westerner to make contact with the Dalai Lama , who became a great friend . |
| 9 | I believe he was the Wandering Jew , doomed to live forever . |
| 10 | I guess I was the first person to develop the idea of the modular system : ie. everything from the preamp to the power amp was modular . |
| 11 | ‘ He was unlucky to take 23 wickets in Sussex 's last two games of the season after the touring side had already been picked — I guess I was the lucky one to benefit . ’ |
| 12 | I guess it was the first time really in my life I 'd been totally left on my own . |
| 13 | He would n't say what was n't working out , though I guess it was the sexual frustration and not being able to put a date on setting up home together . |
| 14 | ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house . |
| 15 | I suppose it was the poor tax payer ? |
| 16 | At least , I suppose it was the fifteenth … |
| 17 | I suppose I was the only one dawdling to look at her instead of going by as if she did n't exist . |
| 18 | Alfonso I think he was the guilty one really . |
| 19 | That 's right and I believe , well I think he was the first goalkeeper to throw the ball out . |
| 20 | I think I was the youngest . |
| 21 | I think it was the following morning after the doctor talked to him . |
| 22 | The voting er you voted for them at the delegate meeting and I think it was the six top six highest in the vote became the standing orders . |
| 23 | I think it was the right one . |
| 24 | I think it was the first time you really spoke to me . |
| 25 | I think it was the other way round , He was telling me to get back to p H and stop writing fiction . |
| 26 | I think it was the old Gladding Masters match , he did n't win it ( Pete Palmer did ) , but he had plenty of big names behind him ( I think the editor might have been one of them ) and showed why he must have been greatly feared in his prime . |
| 27 | I think it was the same drive that led me to invent a series of very complicated games with another school friend , Roger Ferneyhough . |
| 28 | About this time last year I think it was the same week he came there were five judges that he picked every year for fifteen years . |
| 29 | I think it was the sudden transition from light to dark . ’ |
| 30 | I think it was the sixth of September . |